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Uber Technologies’ Asia head on Wednesday lashed out at Seoul’s plans to develop a rival car-hailing app, calling it a waste of tax payers’ money.

Allen Penn, the Head of Asia for Uber, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Seoul that the city’s plans were “duplicative and wasteful of taxpayer’s dollars,” adding the government shouldn’t play a direct role in the sector. He said the city’s response was “incredibly unusual.” Read More »

Samsung Electronics came to Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress to show off its newest smartphones and smartwatches to consumers. But it’s also taking advantage of the global tech event to court one of its most important audiences: the programmers and app developers that make the third-party services that increasingly define the experience on its devices. Read More »

In 2013, South Korea jumped ahead of the U.S. in revenue generated from app sales on Google Inc.’s Play mobile store, according to research and analysis firm App Annie, which tracks app purchases. That makes South Korea, a country of 50 million people, the second-most lucrative country in the world by that metric, just behind Japan.Read More »

After two services – a Korean version of Flipboard and an e-book related app – failed, Jake Park, chief executive of Value Creators & Co. was in desperate need of an item that could turn around the company and boost morale.

An avid user of Facebook and Kakao Talk, the widely popular home-grown instant messaging service in South Korea, Mr. Park got to pay attention to what he calls “social network fatigue,” where too much information is shared with people you barely know. Read More »

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